Once was a podcast hosted by Amy and Paul. They liked to have fun. Yes, they had a ball.

They talked about movies until they were full. The year is 1980. The movie Raging Ball.

Hello everybody and welcome to unspilled. I'm Amy Nichols and I am Paul Sharon. This is the podcaster.

Each week we watch one film from the AFI's top 100 greatest films of all time list.

We are watching from the 2007 edition to see if these films are really as good as people say.

Do they hold up now and how have they influenced the films that we watch today?

How have they? Tell me the truth.

Have they? Amy, the film we're talking about today is Raging Ball.

The film we talked about last week was Annie Hall. Before we get into Raging Ball, I wanted to talk about some of our listeners comments about Annie Hall.

Let's jump right in.

I'll start with Mark Evan-Nef at Question Mark Navhiroot Handspulled. When Amy said Alvi is the only one who can stop time, I thought, he's Zach Morris.

I love that.

You know what? Who, I guess I didn't realize the save by the bell was kind of like the cultural brother of Annie Hall.

I mean, it makes sense. I can't believe they didn't pitch the show that way. I cannot believe they didn't put that in all the posters.

So Lewis Kamerah writes, I just finished listening to the episode and I'm not surprised that the negative review was by John Simon.

Who was notoriously mean-spirited and nasty. Roger Ebert had this to say about him.

Strip away all that false pretension and you'll find a real pretension inside. He does a great act but read his actual reviews and you'll find that he uses intellectual scare tactics to conceal his fundamental lack of sympathy for film.

It's not that he's too hard on movies. It's that he doesn't understand them. And he understands their audiences even less.

The critic has been criticsed.

I love that. That's a really interesting point of view and really a damning critique on a critic from a critic that I really enjoy.

We don't read a lot of Roger Ebert on the show but that's a real damning takedown. That is. That is. And I think that is actually a fair.

I think that it has a personality trait that a minority but still existent percentage of critics does have.

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